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doing THE EARTH

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/20/23691341/ron-desantis-disney-world-board-reedy-creek-florida

Loooooool

https://twitter.com/larryelder/status/1649213455310942209 🤷‍♂️

He's already got his own billion dollar defamation suit.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1649075976020606979?s=20

Friendly call from billing to remind me I owe them money. Six weeks until any penalties etc. kick in. It's been two weeks since the provider's office said they'd call me back eventually. Guess I'll call them tomorrow...

https://twitter.com/NC5PhilWilliams/status/1649096263760228352?s=20 Edit: he resigned already

I think this is the general election fraud thread? But anyways, lol. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/04/20/mike-lindell-prove-wrong-contest/

Predicted what?

What's out there doesn't matter to their audience of it doesn't come from them directly. It needs to penetrate their bubble. Their audience probably won't grow but the current audience will remain in bizarro world.

Everyone senses weakness and is piling on. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/18/chris-christie-ron-desantis-disney-00092505 There was also a quote from Pence that happened after this article.

Even if that were a possibility, practically speaking Thomas etc. in favor of weakening the standard wouldn't do it with conservative Fox as the defendant.

The court wouldn't overturn Sullivan if this had gotten appealed to SCOTUS. The case had all but cleared Sullivan's extremely high bar, so there'd be no need to address the question of lowering the bar (on top of the practical/political factors). That's a major motivating factor in settling - no sense in fighting a battle you're unlikely to win. It is to the extent that a court order that draws a line in the sand while compelling them to make an explicit, formal admission of wrongdoing to their own audience is of vastly greater public concern (and more damaging to the long-term credibility of their current format) than the $800m they pay out while continuing to do what they do.

They were nailed to the wall to the point where the judge told the jury that they must accept as fact that it was all lies and that Fox could not rely on newsworthiness as a defense. They were nailed so hard that there was nothing they could do, and therefore no reason not to wave the flag and settle.

I guess they don't have to make any admissions beyond this statement, no public accountability, they and their viewers get to keep on keeping on in their alternate reality. But they'll be more careful about how they do it.

They needed to settle before the trial began, because that's the point at which they could no longer keep the details from their own audience.

if you had one comma to place in that thread title, where would it go

It depends on what the terms are, but I was really hoping for the public tear-down.

The bots are putting their links in their "About Me" sections. Didn't click obviously but it said CD keys.

Would *George Santos* lie?

https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1648042407907192863?s=20

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Hi Heshi, welcome back! Check my post above for kind of a summary of the reset and the whys of it all.